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Earlier this year, Sheriff’s Office Investigators received information that illegal drugs—heroin, crack cocaine and pills—were being sold out of a residence located at 1906 Baggett Street in Beaufort. Looking into the information, investigators determined that several subjects were involved in the sale of drugs from the Baggett Street residence to varying degrees: 41-year-old Tyreesh White; 30-year-old Travis Ondeck; 19-year-old Kameron Gentile; 43-year-old James Brown; and 30-year-old Heather Simmons. 
Investigators presented the facts of their investigation to a Beaufort County Magistrate and obtained multiple warrants: some for the arrest of the subjects and one to search the Baggett Street residence. This morning, Sheriff’s Office Investigators and SWAT team members, assisted by City of Beaufort police officers and agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, executed a search warrant at the residence. The following subjects were arrested at the time of the search warrant: 

• Tyreesh White for two counts of Sale and Distribution of Heroin, two counts of Sale and Distribution of Heroin with ½ mile of a Park/School, two counts of Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School and Possession with the Intent to Distribute a Schedule IV Controlled Substance 
• Travis Ondeck for Sale and Distribution of Heroin, Sale and Distribution of Heroin with ½ mile of a Park/School, Possession of a Stolen Handgun, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School
• Kameron Gentile for Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School. In addition, Gentile is wanted by the Mount Pleasant Police Department for a drug charge
• James Brown for Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Crack Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School, Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine and Possession with the Intent to Distribute Cocaine within ½ of a Park/School
• Heather Simmons for Possession of Crack Cocaine 

During this morning's search warrant investigators recovered a handgun that had been reported stolen in Jasper County, a pickup truck that had been reported stolen out of North Augusta, crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, methyl​enedioxy​methamphetamine (MDMA) pills, xanax pills, suspected heroin and marijuana, as well as pills and powdered substances that have yet to be identified.The drugs seized during the search warrant will be subjected to chemical analysis at the Sheriff’s Office Forensic Services Laboratory. Additional criminal charges may result from those analyses.

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